Re: Mounting an encrypted volume presents the volume to all users on a machine

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On 10/26/2010 10:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 14:07:53 -0700,
>   Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> That's only if you give root the right to disable or load new selinux
>> policy.
> 
> And the policy is tight enough. You need to not allow root shells or most
> processes the ability to read the keys out of memory or to write memory
> that will change how things work. I don't think targeted policy is locked
> down enough to stop that even if you don't allow root to disble selinux.
> 
>> Seriously, there are machines on the public Internet with a published
>> root account.  You're welcome to log in and try to do anything with them.
> 
> Yeah, I know about one guy that offers a root password if you ask. I am
> not sure what policy he is running on that machine.

It's Russell Coker, access details are available here:

http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/play.html

However the pages haven't been updated in a while and the service seems to be
down right now.

Regards,
Bryn.
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